Billy Rideout, a high school football...

PREP PLAYER DIES.

November 11, 1986|Russ White

PREP PLAYER DIES. Billy Rideout, a high school football player in Smithtown, N.Y., who went into a coma last month after sustaining a brain injury, has died. Rideout was 17. Rideout lost consciousness soon after the injury during a game Oct. 18. A hospital spokesman said Rideout sustained a minor concussion in a game two weeks before the fatal injury.